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Uv Radiation Skin Cancer
1,253 wordsWhat causes melanoma? Scientists do not yet know exactly what causes melanoma skin cancer, but we do know that certain risk factors are linked to the disease. Some risk factors, like smoking, can be controlled. Others, like a person's age or family history, can't be changed. But having a risk factor, or even several, doesnt mean that a person will get the disease. Risk Factors for Melanoma Skin Cancer Moles: Moles are (not cancerous) skin tumors. People with lots of moles, and those who have som...
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American Cancer Society Prostate Cancer
697 wordsProstate Cancer is a malignancy of the prostate gland, a walnut-sized organ located under the bladder in males. The prostate gland surrounds the urethra, which is the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the penis. The American Cancer Society estimates that 317, 100 new cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed annually in the United States and that 41, 400 men die from the disease each year. It is the second leading cause of cancer death after lung cancer in American men. The specific cause...
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Risk Of Heart Heart Attack
1,390 wordsMothers milk is a matchless compound created by Allah to meet the babys nutritional needs and protect it against possible infections. The balance of the nutriments in mothers milk is at ideal levels and the milk is in the ideal form for the babys immature body. At the same time, the mothers milk is also very rich in nutrients which accelerate the growth of brain cells and the development of the nervous system. 1 Artificial baby foods prepared with present-day technology cannot replace this mirac...
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Nausea And Vomiting Types Of Cancer
1,466 words... s not practiced due to the possibility of making it active. Removal of complete malignant tumors is often successful in halting cancer growth in that particular region, when followed by radiation therapy. It is also possible to remove parts of tumors, to reduce the amount of cancerous tissue in the body as a whole. The one major drawback to surgery is that quite often a tumor is not accessible to a surgeon, or it may be attached to a major organ of the body, in which removing the tumor may c...
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Taking Into Consideration Prostate Cancer
1,648 wordsProstatic Cancer Introduction In the research paper we will examine prostate cancer. The essay comprises of three parts: Introduction, the research on prostate cancer (factors that contribute to disease, symptoms and clinical implications of a person having prostate cancer) and Conclusion. We will dwell on factors that influence the onset of the disease and discover clinical implications. In the last part of research we will summarize all the studied information and make a conclusion concerning ...
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Department Of Health Older Person
1,596 words... in the chromosomes, which are complexes of DNA and protein. At the end of the chromosomes there are regions of DNA that do not code for any of our characteristics but which appear to protect the chromosome. (Amador, 2000). As cells age, these regions of DNA, known as telomeres, become shorter. It is not known whether this is a cause or an effect of ageing. However, in cancer cells the length of the telomeres remains constant and they have high levels of an enzyme called telomerase, which rep...
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1,256 wordsShould Human Cloning be Legal? Cloning captured the publics attention when Scottish scientists startled the world in July of 1996 when they announced the birth of a sheep named Dolly which they had cloned from the nucleus of an adult mammary cell and a sheep egg. Ever since this spectacular event occurred people have been thinking about the possibility of cloning humans. What would a clone be like? His / her physical appearance would be the same as the person he / she was cloned from, but depend...
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Cystic Fibrosis Identical Twins
1,408 wordsCloning can be a very sensitive subject. It seems that it? s a battle between science and ethics. Does the ladder outweigh the former or vice versa? Maybe a few definitions will shed some light on the subject. ? Cloning is to create a genetic duplicate of an individual organism through asexual reproduction, as by stimulating a single cell? (Webster? s 211). ? Parthenogenesis is reproduction of organisms without conjunction of gametes of opposite sexes. ? (Webster? s 800). Cloning has its medical...
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American Cancer Society Types Of Leukemia
1,016 wordsDNA electrophoreses is a process in which a DNA strand is cut by a restriction enzyme at a certain point so it can be measured and compared with other DNA. The purpose of the lab was to determine the father of a child by comparing the child s DNA with that of the mother and two possible fathers. The child s DNA fits a combination of the real father and mother. Electrophoresis begins with the pouring of the gel. The gel is an auger poured into a water bath. Combs are then placed in the forming ge...
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Ultraviolet Rays Gamma Rays
343 wordsI went to Hawaii on vacation to get a tan, but I got something else instead. Ultraviolet rays are stronger, and hotter near the equator. When I got home I got x-rays. I was sent for treatment with gamma rays. Wow! What a vacation. It was so hot that I had to jump into a pool just to cool off. Ultraviolet rays have wavelengths between 10 nm and 430 nm. They also have a very high frequency of about 10, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 Hz. - 1, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 Hz. Photon energy emissions are al...
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Human Embryo Cloning Don T Understand
734 wordsThe societal issue being addressed in this article is the cloning of humans and nuclear cell fusion. This question lingering into every household Should we be playing God? This question has substantial points on each side. Some people think that we shouldn t be manipulating nature s creations, and we should leave things the way they are because that is the way things are meant to be. Other s oppose that jurisdiction and state that we can rid the world of cancers and tumors and quite possibly sav...
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White Blood Cells Lymph Nodes
480 wordsHodgkins disease, sometimes called Hodgkins lymphoma, is a cancer that starts in lymphatic tissue. Lymphatic tissue includes the lymph nodes and related organs that are part of the bodys immune and blood-forming systems. The lymph nodes are small, bean-shaped organs found underneath the skin in the neck, underarm, groin, and elsewhere in the body. They are also found inside the chest, abdomen, and pelvis. Lymph nodes make and store infection-fighting white blood cells, called lymphocytes. They a...
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Billions Of Dollars Time And Effort
3,117 wordsThe International Space Station The International Space Station is the doorway to the future of mankind and the world as it is known. The scientific and medical discoveries that will be made on the station could create billions of dollars annually. A plan like this, arranged to benefit the whole world economy, should sound like a good idea to every person, but some believe that the ISS is too risky, too ineffective, or too costly to create. Whether or not the space station is worth the money, ti...
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American Cancer Society Types Of Leukemia
820 wordsLeukemia strikes Leukemia Leukemia Leukemia strikes all ages and both sexes. In 1995 approximately 20, 400 people died from Leukemia. The all time five year survival rate is 38 %. This rate has gone to 52 % in the mid 1980 s. Approximately 25, 700 cases were reported in 1995 alone (American Cancer Society-leukemia, 1995). Leukemia is a form of cancer in the blood cells. Most forms of Leukemia occur in the white blood cells. These abnormal cells reproduce in large quantities and look and perform ...
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Birth Control Pills Benign Tumors
2,111 wordsWhat is Cancer? Cancer is a group of many related diseases. All forms of cancer cause cells in the body to change and grow in an abnormal way. Normal body cells divide and grow in an orderly fashion. But cells changed by cancer can divide and grow out of control. This out-of-control-growth damages normal body tissues and disrupts the ability of organs to function, as they should. During the early years of a persons life, normal cells divide rapidly until adult size is reached. After that, normal...
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